The Lisbon Camp asks the President of the Republic to intercede with the Government so that the executive led by Luís Montenegro receives the movements for the right to housing before the approval of the rental law.
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12/11/2026
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Lusa
A Camped in Lisbon wants the President of the Republic to intercede with the Government so that the executive led by Luís Montenegro receives the movements for the right to housing before the approval of the rental law.
This request is contained in a letter prepared by the Lisbon Camp for the meeting with the head of state, António José Seguro, scheduled for Friday at the Palace of Belém.
“The proposal for lease law and decisions on the state’s assets are from the government. Therefore, we ask you to intercede with the Prime Minister so that the Government will receive the camp and listen to the tenants before approving the lease decree-law ", can be read in the letter to which the Lusa agency had access.
The Lisbon Camp held tonight a popular assembly in Parque das Nações, where the demands to be handed over to António José Seguro were presented, Lou Loução explained, of the movement.
It was also announced that a popular assembly will take place on Friday at 19:00 in Rossio, he added.
In the letter to the President of the Republic, with date of Friday, this movement for housing asks António José Seguro to answer in writing and presents four points, which considers “the center of the house claim notebook”.
In the first, by the “reversion of the rental law”, the movement asks the President of the Republic to “tell publicly with what criteria” will evaluate the rental law “at the two times when it arrives: the authorization law of the Assembly of the Republic and the decree-law of the Government”.
He also asks António José Seguro “to listen to tenants and residents, camped and popular assemblies of Lisbon and the whole country before deciding” and “who do not promulgate rules that facilitate evictions without alternative housing”.
On the “teletions to the rents”, the second point, the Lisbon Camp urges Insurance to address “a message to the Assembly of the Republic regarding the compliance with Article 65(3) of the Constitution, which requires the State to adopt a policy to establish a system of income compatible with family income”.
“ For us, this requires ceilings to the rents fixed by law ", can be read.
In the third point, on the “end of the use of public heritage for speculation and its transformation into public housing or collective property cooperative”, the movement asks the Head of State to “ask the Government publicly to publish the inventory of public heritage with housing fitness, the list of 477 properties and the list of what is being sold”.
“And to defend that this patrimony serves for public housing or cooperative collective property, not for sale,” they stress.
The movement claims, on the fourth point, the “political protection for all the people who participate in the meetings, especially immigrants”, stressing that it has complaints of immigrants who fear that participation in a “popular assembly” or a peaceful demonstration weighs a request for residence permits”.
The Lisbon Camp also recalls that the Civil House wrote on November 5th that the right to the demonstration must be exercised “without fears or embarrassment by all citizens” and urges António José Seguro to state “publicly that this applies to all people, with or without Portuguese citizenship”.
It also asks the President of the Republic to “ask the Government that there are guarantees that peaceful participation is not registered or used in foreign people’s cases, making the answer public”.
The current protests against the housing crisis began in Porto on October 10 and expanded to Lisbon, but have also motivated concentrations in other cities.